10 Books For Depressed People
And it's not just that the characters find themselves in depressing situation after depressing situation (well, they kind of do), it's the fact that the scope of the novel makes every depressing instance so much more tragic because you're highly familiar with what lead each character to the sad place they're in currently.
7. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (1999), David Foster Wallace
If you’re the type of depressed person who’s thrilled when you come across a person who describes to a T all your toxic self-hatred, overanalysis and social sensitivity, you need to go out and buy David Foster Wallace’s short fiction collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men right now. Granted, not every piece in the collection is of the intense-psychic-analysis vein, but the ones that are will leave you sort of stunned. If you’ve read Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road and enjoyed the author’s ability to describe perfectly the toxicity of certain thought patterns, you’ll be blown away with what DFW does here. Note: particularly enjoyable in the collection are “Adult World” (I and II), “The Depressed Person” and “Octet.”
